{"id":14614,"date":"2017-01-08T21:16:23","date_gmt":"2017-01-08T13:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=14614"},"modified":"2017-01-08T23:08:05","modified_gmt":"2017-01-08T15:08:05","slug":"helping-our-miri-fire-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=14614","title":{"rendered":"Helping our Miri fire victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Piasau State Assemblyman, Dato&#8217; Sebastian Ting called on\u00a0several government agencies to meet up at a coffee shop yesterday\u00a0morning near the burned shop houses at Beautiful Jade centre, Miri\u00a0 to\u00a0discuss on how best to help the affected shopkeepers.<\/p>\n<p>Ting said a shop owner, Simon Tan called him on Saturday to help as\u00a0they had no electricity and they were anxious to clean and start their\u00a0business.<\/p>\n<p>With the affected six shop owners and shopkeepers, Ting met them with\u00a0officers from Bomba, Police, district office, SEB, council and Welfare\u00a0department.<\/p>\n<p>The shop owners were able to air their concern and the officers to render a hand.<\/p>\n<p>Ting said it was a fruitful meeting and with the representatives\u00a0there, the shop owners knew who to contact for help. He said it was\u00a0unfortunate that the fire two days ago had caused a loss of life where\u00a0a student was killed when she jumped from the shop house.<\/p>\n<p>He said it was a Sunday and thanked the government officers for\u00a0turning up to give assistance.<\/p>\n<p>The Bomba, said Ting had completed their investigation yesterday and\u00a0they allow the shopkeepers to move to the upper floors to do their\u00a0cleaning up.<\/p>\n<p>The burned shops were constructed in the 70s. Ting called to all the\u00a0old shop houses to ensure that they had proper firewalls to protect\u00a0lives and properties in case of fire.<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/2017-01-08-PHOTO-00000020.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14615\" alt=\"2017-01-08-photo-00000020\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/2017-01-08-PHOTO-00000020-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/2017-01-08-PHOTO-00000020-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/2017-01-08-PHOTO-00000020-1024x682.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/2017-01-08-PHOTO-00000020.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/2017-01-08-PHOTO-00000021.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14616\" alt=\"2017-01-08-photo-00000021\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/2017-01-08-PHOTO-00000021-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/2017-01-08-PHOTO-00000021-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/2017-01-08-PHOTO-00000021-1024x682.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/2017-01-08-PHOTO-00000021.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/2017-01-08-PHOTO-00000023.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14617\" alt=\"2017-01-08-photo-00000023\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/2017-01-08-PHOTO-00000023-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/2017-01-08-PHOTO-00000023-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/2017-01-08-PHOTO-00000023-1024x682.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/2017-01-08-PHOTO-00000023.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Piasau State Assemblyman, Dato&#8217; Sebastian Ting called on\u00a0several government agencies to meet up at a coffee shop yesterday\u00a0morning near the burned shop houses at Beautiful Jade centre, Miri\u00a0 to\u00a0discuss on how best to help the affected shopkeepers. Ting said a shop owner, Simon Tan called him on Saturday to help as\u00a0they had no electricity and they were anxious to clean and start their\u00a0business. With the affected six shop owners and shopkeepers, Ting met them with\u00a0officers from Bomba, Police, district office, SEB, council and Welfare\u00a0department. The shop owners were able to<a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=14614\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14616,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14614"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14618,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14614\/revisions\/14618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}